I created yesterday a drive image using GZip.
I opened the 51.3 GiB file named ssd.img.gz to see one icon thats a package of 3.9 GiB, yes, thats THree point Nine Gigabytes in size and has the name of ...

I download a .zip folder/file and I have two installed unpacking programmes (Archiver for .zip files, 7zip). But when I click on the unpacking here options it says An error occurred while loading the ...

I've got a couple dozen sets of Audacity project folders and .aup project files whose names are very close, i.e. 10-13-14-data and 10-13-14.aup. I'd like to compress all of these files automatically ...

I am wanting to download an tar.gz archive, extract it and compress it into a zip file in one command. Reason for this is to be independent from temporary files.
The command I use:
curl -L "someURL" ...

I have a zip file that I need to extract into another folder. When I set up extraction to said folder it says "permission denied". I've read here how to log into a terminal as root and superuser but ...

I have many zip files a.zip, b.zip, c.zip, ... and I want to extract each of them into new folders a, b, c, ... respectively, via ubuntu terminal. Actually, what I want is a solution that I can use ...

I have a zip file that is indeed corrupted. It contains one file that is fine, and a second that is 0bytes and corrupted. But when I unpack it on my Mac (double click in finder), it does unpack and ...

I was trying to install some custom themes on my computer running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS yesterday, but with little success. The next day I realized that my failed attempts at getting a theme going resulted ...

would someone please give me explicit step by step instructions how to install an external subtitle onto a foreign video that
i will play on SMPlayer. i know how to download the zip file from google ...

I am wondering if we on Ubuntu have an option to compress an directory of for instance 2GB size into several files that are restricted to the size of say 100 MB? I know on Microsoft Windows you can do ...

How can I download ZIP file with curl command? I tried curl -sO, but error occurred. I want to download zip file from address:
http://github.com/ziyaddin/xampp/archive/master.zip
but can't. What must ...

I am using Ubuntu 12.10 with session fallback desktop and really very much confused about how to install a software on Ubuntu. Please clarify few issue. I want to install virgoFTP . I download it from ...

I want to create zip of a folder from command-line. I can do something like
zip -r folder.zip folder. I want to give the zipped folder same name as the original folder. I can simulate this by writing ...